20 Questions For You All
I am sure there are some spoilers involved in the following 20 questions. Feel free to answer or not - some of them ARE rhetorical, after all...
1. Why, in "For The Man Who Has Everything," was Superman's fondest desire to be a bureaucrat on Krypton?
2. Anyone here actually think that Day of Vengeance would have a real conclusion? Yeah, me neither.
3. Why did it take until the FIFTH issue of Girls before we saw the characters NOT act like total a-holes?
4. Was there a single peripheral character during Dan Jurgens' run on Superman that he did NOT develop a plot around? The dude made the kid whose house Doomsday destroyed into a superhero! He made the woman that Lex Luthor killed into a superbeing! I would not have been surprised if we saw a villain during his run called "Indica" or "Statement of Ownership"!
5. Did I imagine them saying that Ultimates 2 #8 would reveal who the traitor was? I don't think that I imagined that, but did I?
6. Who here spends more time in a Greg Land "illustrated" book just guessing who each character is traced from, then actually just enjoying the art?
7. Alex, what does the X in Sonic X mean?
8. Why HAVE a color version of Wolverine #32?
9. Anyone understand more than 40% of each issue of Marvel 1602?
10. Why did Gerry Jones accept the Guy Gardner writing gig if he obviously HATED the character? Moreover, why did DC LET him write it?
11. Do you think Terry Moore really did not realize until a few months ago that he has had no forward progress in the book for about 30 issues? Because the recent shift is so dramatic, it seems like he just woke up and said, "Damn...I am in SUCH a rut."
12. Won't you sleep safer at night knowing that the Birds of Prey are now officially called the Birds of Prey?
13. Sure doesn't seem like we've already had five issues worth of Machine Teen, does it?
14. I am in the "Captain America does not try to kill unless he thinks it is absolutely neccessary," but at the same time, didn't Mark Gruenwald make Cap out to be a little wimpy over the whole killing thing?
15. How many times did Abra Kadabra show up in Waid's Flash run? Ten times? Twelve? It seemed like every other plot, the Flash was fighting Abra Kadabra.
16. Do you think we will ever see the new team of superheroes Joe Quesada introduced in Daredevil: Father OUTSIDE of Daredevil: Father? I sure hope not. I hope they go the way of the Fatboys.
17. Anyone remember the Fatboys in Daredevil?
18. Who was expecting Andreyko to come out with a really good issue of Manhunter out of nowhere? Anyone?
19. Who finds it amusing that the star of Manhunter was easily the fourth most interesting character in the latest issue of Manhunter?
20. How can Batman seriously think Alfred turned against him when, in the SAME ISSUE, they talked about how there was a new Clayface out there, probably working with Hush!?!?!?!?!
That's it for me!!
posted by Brian Cronin @ 6:27 PM
11 Comments:
I think Kadabra showed up three times- in the lawsuit arc, Race Against Time, and the end of the Dark Flash arc. I suppose you might count him as showing up in the Zero Hour issue of Flash, as he was involved in Wally's jaunt through time.
I will, indeed, count the Zero Hour appearance...hehe.
Also, he appeared in EARLY Waid Flash as well, before Barry Allen even!
And Waid also wrote him as part of the top villains in Underworld Unleashed.
1) He's on his home planet, and he's doing mundane, normal everyday things, freed from whatever pressures he might feel from having to save the world so many goddamn times.
9) What's not to understand?
12) What?
18 & 19) So all the people (including Gail Simone) who tell me that it's a great superhero book are wrong? So I shouldn't get the first trade when it comes out? Help!
3. Because generally people are normally a-holeoids 4 out of 5 times.
That is a very funny answer, sleestak.
Jeffrey, Manhunter? It certainly had some good qualities early on. I was never a fan, as I found the lead character too unappealing (I mean, for crissakes, she leaves her weapon laying around the house, and her kid almost kills himself playing with it. Kinda hard to feel all that sympathetic to someone like that), but there were also some good qualities to the book.
Recently, though, the stories have spiraled downwards, so the way that he was able to completely right the ship with the latest issue was, to me, astonishing.
In addition, having three interesting characters in a book IS pretty worthwhile, even if they're not the leads.
So would I recommend the book? No.
Would I go out of my to persuade you NOT to get the book? No.
I actually thought all the issues of Manhunter were interesting, and I like the main character too. :)
I second the team from Daredevil Father biting the big one. I'm not buying anymore of the series.
My completely unreliable responses:
1. Actually, the thrust of that dream was to have sex with a hot actress without killing her. The bureaucrat angle was nerdy Clark Kent's last stand.
2. You should have done what I did and dropped out of DC after Identity Crisis (barring GLC Recharge). Life is grand!
3. Because the Lunas were counting on you staring at slightly less X-rated body parts.
4. Wait...that karate lady became a supervillain? Holy biscuits! That's crazy!
5. Not sure I get you here. It's pretty plainly Cap, a.k.a. Loki, a.k.a. One More Plot Twist Coming.
6. This is silly. Greg Land doesn't TRACE. He sublimates!
7. X-tra sales due to an X-ploitation of the 24th letter.
8. Because dang it, we're code free and blood can finally be red again. Not that it is, even in Ultimates. Eep.
9. Yes. History majors. It did seem like the actual story took place 600 years away, but it's Neil Gaiman. He's never really been about conflict, and when he is, he finds a way to make it remote. He's about cool ideas that get explored via character's emotional reactions, but they're vignettes rather than a chain of tumbling fate. He's not a superhero writer, really. At least, not an operatic one.
10. He didn't hate the character (I'm being serious here, he told me he had a soft spot for Guy). He actually gave him some neat characterization, keeping him a brash jerk but explaining why he'd be that way. He got the hook of Guy, which is to talk big but walk bigger, undermining his own heroism. And to keep losing everything he has, but fighting anyway. Superman protects because it's the right thing to do. Guy protects because he wants to be a hero. He has no breaking point. You kick him lower and lower, and he'll just fight harder. That's why Gerry literally chucked him into the gutter before he was "reborn."
11. I got nothin' here, cause I only read the first arc and failed to be impressed. I'm told it gets better later, but go read Chris Ward if you want something funny and insightful.
12. I'd sleep better knowing Gail Simone had ascended to a powerful consultant position at DC shaping the--wait...yessss!
13. Jebus, that's out? How did any comic store manage to hide the radiant James Jean covers from sight?
14. Yes. A solid decade of Waid, Cassaday, Brubaker and tangentially Millar, and in my head 616-Cap is still the biggest pansy in Marvel.
15. Actually, he only appeared once. The rest was an illusion.
16. You want them to play rapping, obese nurses to an old millionaire in a box-office bomb?
17. No. After the rock that was Hulk vs. the Roller-Skating Disco Derby, I don't waste brain remembering anything less awesome than the train fight in Spider-Man 2, and then only if I was skydiving while I watched it.
18. Did it go downhill? Andreyko made a Bendis third-act readable, so he can't be that bad.
19. If the top three were villains challenging her, I'd find it CODENAME: AWESOME!
20. Batman's a genius. You cannot understand his ways.
--Brendan McGinley,
who can't remember his blogger login
1. Superman's fondest desire was for Krypton not to be destroyed and his family alive. He didn't think further than that.
2. No, I don't think anyone did. I hate Bill Willingham. I really do.
4. No. Jurgens was always obessed with the little people around Supes.
8. Because Jose Villarubia is a fantastic talent?
9. Not when it was going from issue to issue, no. In hardcover? Yeah, I got it. If you're talking about the Pak/Tocchini version, though...
10. He's a hack.
11. Logically, he should have ended it when Katchoo comes down those stairs in the art gallery and sees David around issue #65 or so.
12. whaaaa?
14. God, yes. Gruenwald placed Cap in a position where he HAD to kill to save people, and he spent the next year agonizing over it like a little child. Of course, Rucka trumps everyone these days when he makes superheroes pussies about killing.
15. Mickey Spillane used to say, "any time you get stuck in a story, send in two guys with guns." Waid seemed to do that with Abrakadabra.
17. Yes, a great Nocenti creation. They actually first appeared, I think, in Longshot, and Nocenti moved them over to DD in the second issue of her run.
20. Because nobody at DC knows what the fuck they're doing?
GREAT new concept, Brian. As for Sonic X...I'll get back to you. I think it's meant to tie into the new Sonic video game.
5. Not sure I get you here. It's pretty plainly Cap, a.k.a. Loki, a.k.a. One More Plot Twist Coming.
Yeah, but I thought I read somewhere where they said that this issue would NOT be a "what will happen next?" issue, but rather a "the traitor is ____" issue.
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